NEWS: CHIBOK GIRLS: GOVT IS READY TO SWAP PRISONERS FOR GIRLS...BUHARI

BUHARI

The issue of the abducted Chibok girls has continued to reverberate across the globe following the very recent video released by the Boko Haram sect that master-minded the kidnap, over two years ago.

The Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari at a recent meeting while speaking at the sidelines of the Sixth Tokyo International Conference of African Development (TICAD VI) in Nairobi at the weekend, restated his government’s readiness to dialogue with bona fide leaders of the terror group who know the whereabouts of the girls who are still in captivity.

“I have made a couple of comments on the Chibok girls and it seems to me that much of it has been politicized. What we said is that the government which I preside over is prepared to talk to bona fide leaders of Boko Haram. If they do not want to talk to us directly, let them pick an internationally recognized Non-Governmental Organisation; convince them that they are holding the girls and that they want Nigeria to release a number of Boko Haram leaders in detention, which they are supposed to know”.

“If they do it through the ‘modified leadership’ of Boko Haram and they talk with an internationally recognized NGO, then Nigeria will be prepared to discuss their release,” Buhari stated.

Buhari, speaking through his Twitter handle some nights ago, paid glowing tributes to the military for their efforts in the war against insurgency in Nigeria’s northeast.

He emphasized his administration’s resolve not waste time and resources on doubtful sources who falsely claim to know the whereabouts of the abducted Chibok girls.